On 2024-04-06 18:55, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Ah, sorry, I wasn't precise enough, please let me explain. When
I wrote "prefix", I had its use by humans in mind, e.g. for searching
the "what's cooking" emails by hand, to see the statuses of one's
patches. I mean, that's what I do -- by searching for "ds/", I can
easily find the statuses of my patches in "what's cooking" emails.
Does that make sense?
Yes, and the fan-out reduces the search space by a lot, but like the
birthday paradox, given sufficiently large number of people, the
chances of two people falling into the same shard increases. It of
course does not help that the first and the last capital letters in
people's names are not evenly distributed ;-).
Exactly. Actually, such collisions/overlaps are a good problem
to have, because it means that the number of contributors is large
enough to cause such issues. :)
